Envinate Benje Tinto 2022

$27.99 on 6+ (code: 6saves2)94+ pts Wine AdvocateThe red 2022 Benje is floral, expressive, clean and elegant, reflecting a very good year in the region, with notes of rose petals and talcum powder, a fine texture and very elegant tannins. This has to be the most elegant Benje to date. It was bottled in July 2023. - Luis Gutierrez Robert Parker Wine Advocate 10/2024 90% Listán Prieto, 9% Listán Blanco, 1% Tintilla - The grapes fermented by parcel with native yeasts in a mixture of concrete vats and plastic tanks. All parcels completed spontaneous malolactic fermentation. - After fermentation, the wine aged for eight months in 228-litre neutral French oak barrels (65%) and concrete tank (35%) without racking. - Bottled without fining or filtering and with only a tiny addition of sulfur. Benje Tinto is sourced from 1,000 meters elevation, old-vine, pie franco parcels of Listan Prieto (Mission) with a bit of Tintilla, named “Masca,” “La Zanja,” “Valle de Arriba,” and “Llano Redondo”, all